BTW

Went to Tesco on a Sunday and was transported back to my Auchan in Warsaw days.

Does every Pole in Finchley only do their shopping on Sundays? Everytime I turned around, there was another one, yapping on their mobile, filling up their basket.

I suspect that most of them work 6 days a week, so the only time they have to shop is on Sundays. Either that, or Sundays are the days when they start putting the food in the clearance section.

I was late picking up the girls from school yesterday, and as I was rushing down the street, another Mum from Adriana's class approached me.

"I'm so sorry to hear about your loss...Adriana was telling the class about it today" she said.

"Excuse me?" racking my brains to figure who had just died.

"She said that your cat died" she explained.

I must have looked like a lunatic, but I started to laugh and said: "But we don't have a cat!"

At that point, I wasn't sure what had happened. Maybe everyone misunderstood what Adriana was saying, maybe someone else's cat died and she made it sound like it was her cat. Or maybe she's just practicing her Munchausen-by-proxy delivery, in order to gage the sympathy she can get out of people.

I had a chat with her and explained how she shouldn't be making up stories about dead cats, and I hope that's the end of that.

I'll know it's something more serious if next time I come walking down the street and another Mum says: "Adriana told us you were dead!"